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Portrait of Ian Austen

Ian Austen

While I cover people and events broadly throughout Canada, my base in the country’s capital means that I often focus on politics at both the federal and provincial level. I’m particularly interested in Indigenous stories as well as stories about overlooked issues or Canadian communities. I am the principal author of The Times’s weekly Canada newsletter.

I began writing about technology for The Times in the late 1990s, particularly the dramatic rise and the equally profound fall of the company that eventually became known as BlackBerry. I began covering Canada more generally in 2003. I also reported extensively on professional cycling and the Tour de France. Much of my career before The Times was spent writing for magazines, particularly Maclean’s. I also worked for Southam News and was a contributor, mainly about technology, to CBC Radio.

I grew up in Windsor, Ontario, and attended journalism school at what is now known as Toronto Metropolitan University.

Like all Times journalists I uphold standards found in our Ethical Journalism Handbook. For me its overriding message is one of maintaining independence and fairness. Because I occasionally write about corporations I do not directly own shares. I do not donate money to political groups, political parties or electoral candidates. Nor do I attend any events of a political nature except for reporting. I have an immediate family member who works in a senior communications position at a major Canadian corporation. So I do not write about that company or cover issues that primarily affect its interests.

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    4 Children and 2 Adults Are Killed in Ottawa Home

    The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the killings on Wednesday of a Sri Lankan family, the city’s largest mass murder in at least 30 years.

    By Ian Austen, Vjosa Isai and Isabel Harder

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